It is obvious that Turkey’s dead-end policy of granting a status of sovereign equality to the pseudostate and its insistence on an equal international status was and remains ineffective, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus has stressed commenting on the results of the Summit of the Organisation of Turkic States.
The Foreign Ministry notes in a press release that during the deliberations of the Summit of the Organisation of Turkic States held on Friday in Uzbekistan, Turkey proposed changing the Statute of the Organisation, in a way that it would also allow the participation of “entities” under observer status.
It recalls that based on the Statute of the Organisation, only internationally recognized and sovereign states participate, either as full members or with observer status.
The Ministry notes that given the refusal of the other member states to accept the accession of the separatist entity of the pseudostate under observer status, Turkey proposed changing the statute, so that it provides for the participation of unrecognised “entities”.
“The fact that Turkey itself promoted and chose to accept the downgrading of the pseudostate’s participation to the status of ‘entity’ rather than ‘state’ proves the obvious. That is to say, that no state in the International Community, nor the Turkic states, accept or recognise any legal or international status for the separatist entity of the so-called “turkish republic of northern Cyprus”, the press release says.
The Ministry notes that as a result, “any attempt by Turkey to present this as a victory, is nothing but a meaningless development. With its actions, it managed to secure observer status for the pseudostate under the category of “entities” and this, of course, under the condition of the ratification of the new Statute by the member states of the Organisation”.
In addition, the Ministry points out the relevant public statements made by the President of Kazakhstan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, who expressed their countries’ support for International Law and the need to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states.
“It is obvious that Turkey’s dead-end policy of granting sovereign equality status to the pseudostate and its insistence on an equal international status was and remains ineffective,” the Ministry concludes.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and occupied the island`s northern third. Numerous rounds of talks under UN aegis to reunite the island under a federal roof failed to yield results.
On 15 November 1983, nine years after the Turkish invasion of the island, Turkey instigated and endorsed a “unilateral declaration of independence” in Cyprus` occupied areas, announced by the Turkish Cypriot leadership.
The United Nations Security Council with Resolutions 541 and 550 calls upon all States to respect the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, unity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus. They also describe the UDI as “legally invalid.”
Source: Cyprus News Agency